The Power of Habits in Your Personal and Business Life
The Power of Habits
How does the power of habits affect your personal and business life?
Our daily habits can have a positive or negative affect on our personal and business life. It is estimated that 95% of the things we do we do out of habit and is a continues routine. You could say we are creatures of habit.
Habits are a practice or act we frequently repeat or a mode of behavior.
We get to choose our habits whether it is a good or bad habits. The habits we form and choose throughout our life time can mold our future. They make you who you are and also can break you. The power of negative habits can even bring discouragement into your life. Good habits are difficult to acquire and the bad ones are easy to live with.
So how do you work on your negative habits and create positive ones? Keep this in mind, life is a do it yourself project and is always a work in progress. It does not end! All of our battles are internal. Only 20% of our battles are external and the other 80% is internal. To acquire good habits you have to change your thought process. If you can grasp this concept you can change many of your negative habits into productive and positive ones.
Work on your thought process. Think about your bad habits and how you could change them. Be honest with yourself. If you are not honest and critical about it your negative habits will continue to rule your life. What I have found is someone with some negative habits that they not only affects them but also affects others and they can not see the effect it has on themselves and others. They normally respond by making excuses. You need to listen to others and not become defensive and use this to your advantage to make a positive change.
To make a change you have to discipline yourself. Start with the habits that you see as unproductive in your daily routine. Once you have figured these out make a change in your routine and always keep in mind the process you need to do daily to break the negative habit and continue to work on it. Eventually the negative becomes a positive and it will just become routine and you will not even have to think about it.
Be Blessed
L. D. Klippert
Business Mentor/Personal Development
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The best way to break bad habits is to drop them.
Make a commitment today and always have the I Can Do Attitude and before you know it you will have more positive habits.
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LD,
This is a great article post. Thanks for connecting! We are creatures of habit good and bad. It really makes sense to break all of the bad habits by replacing them with good habits.
Mark
Mark,
Thanks for the comment and the connection. With determination and focus we can replace our bad habits with good and more productive ones.
LD
Gidday there again LD
Yes old habits die hard was a saying that is firmly stuck in my mind. I have to get rid of that demon. The reason it’s still there is I still have not fully solved the problem of getting out of habits that hold me back.
Some I have developed in the learning process while setting up my blog and I have to leave it alone for a while. The blog design that is. I have a habit of wanting everything to look perfect but that can hold a person back.
Dennis thanks for visiting again and leaving a comment. Poor habits are very hard to get away from. With determination and keeping a habit we want to break in the for front of our mind by even writing it down and putting it in front of us to see on a regular basis they can be replaced with a more productive habit.
Good day
LD